The 2018 Final Horse and Foot Ceremonial Guard Mounting of the Presidential Regiment Will be Held in Moscow’s Kremlin

This Saturday, October 20, 2018, the final Horse and Foot Ceremonial Guard Mounting of the Presidential Regiment will be held at Moscow’s Kremlin Cathedral Square adjourning the sixteenth ceremonial season.

The final ceremony will feature participation of the Honor Guard and Cavalry Escort of the Presidential Regiment as well as the President’s Band. All these groups are regarded to be the hallmark of the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival as their brilliant performances highlight both its evening and daytime programs.

Held in Moscow’s Kremlin the Horse and Foot Ceremonial Guard Mounting is a stunning and spectacular ceremony weaving together different historical epochs of the Russian glorious army as well as showing deep rooted historical continuity of the country’s military traditions.

The nowadays Horse and Foot Ceremonial Guard Mounting was established in autumn of 2004. The new ceremony has been created in accordance with the centuries-old military traditions and unites some of the most beautiful elements of military rituals featuring demonstration of arms drills and the so-called horse carousel, all performed under the accompaniment of a wind band.

The 2018 ceremonial program has retained all the basic elements which have already become traditional. Thus, the traditional part of the ceremony has been based on dynamic regrouping of its participants performing special arms drills. Exceptional synchronization and preciseness of movements are crucial for brilliant performance of all ceremonial program elements.